Windows 10: Booting from cloned SSD, removal of old installation

Booting from cloned SSD, removal of old installation

Hi all,

I'm in a bit of a situation of my own causing here. I had a lot of trouble opening up my new laptop to install an nvme drive (HP among others has begun using locktite like solutions to render maintenance and repair of devices difficult), so I installed the nvme (the original boot drive was a 7200 rpm hdd), and used samsungs data migration tool to clone the drive. And put the machine together again.

I can boot from the SSD after using bcdedit, but it gives me an OS choice that I would like to remove at bootup and remove the windows install from the hdd without removing or disconnecting the drive.

The crux of my issue is that I seek a solution that does not require the removal of the laptops backplate again to disconnect the drive. The cloned drive is working perfectly.

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You'd see 2 entries. Click to hilite the one you want to delete then click "Delete"

Much thanks! It solved the problem instantly.

Any idea what would be the ideal way to clean the 1tb drive ? I tried diskpart clean command but it did not allow me to perform that action on a drive with windows files and efi partition etc on it. Boot from a live linux usb and do it?

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Any idea what would be the ideal way to clean the 1tb drive ? I tried diskpart clean command but it did not allow me to perform that action on a drive with windows files and efi partition etc on it. Boot from a live linux usb and do it?

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You should be able to do it from the recovery environment. Boot to the recovery options, use command prompt. I would disconnect the disk you want to keep, drive letters are different in recovery.

Or you could go just like you were doing a clean install and use the advanced options and delete each partition.

After the failed diskpart, the 1tb drive refused to show up in the file manager.

Fortunately I had installed Lubuntu on a USB. I booted from that, and deleted all partitions on the 1tb drive except the recovery one.

After booting into windows again, I used dskmgmt.exe to reformat the empty space into a NTFS partition. The Recovery partition I left alone, but I cannot see the recovery partition in windows explorer. Although its not a problem at the moment, I would still like to know how to access it should something go south.

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